Georgieva named European of the Year

European commissioner for international co-operation, humanitarian aid and crisis response wins European Voice award.

European Voice

11/30/10, 3:30 PM CET

Updated 4/12/14, 8:25 PM CET

Kristalina Georgieva was tonight named European of the Year at European Voice’s annual awards ceremony. The 57-year-old former World Bank official was also voted European commissioner of the year.

The readers of European Voice voted Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), as their EU Official of the Year. He had been nominated for preserving the ECB’s reputation for independence in the face of political pressure during the eurozone’s sovereign-debt crisis.

The joint winners of the category of National Politician of the Year were David Cameron and Nick Clegg, the prime minister and deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom. Their decision in May to form a coalition government had won them inclusion in a shortlist drawn up by a panel of experts for breaking with the UK’s entrenched habits and adopting a more European style of government.

Jeanine Hennis-Plaaschaert was voted MEP of the Year. Even though she left the European Parliament half-way through the year to join the Dutch national parliament, the impact that she had made in February was sufficient to win the award. She had led the Parliament to reject a deal struck by the European Commission and the EU’s national governments with the US government enabling the transfer of information about bank transfers made by European citizens. The agreement, which was designed to counter terrorism, was eventually revised with enhanced data-protection rules.

The winner of the category of Inspiration of the Year was Spain’s national football team, which won the World Cup in July and asserted European supremacy in the world’s most popular sport.

Georgieva, a former vice-president of the World Bank, was nominated for the post of European commissioner only when the Parliament threatened in January to withhold approval for the new college of commissioners because they were unhappy with Bulgaria’s first choice as commissioner, Rumiana Jeleva. Georgieva was drafted in from the World Bank as a replacement, taking over the portfolio of international co-operation, humanitarian aid and crisis response. She led the European Union’s response to humanitarian disasters in Haiti and Pakistan.

Tim King, the editor of European Voice, said: “Georgieva became a European commissioner almost by accident, but since February she has clearly impressed many people.

“2010 has been a difficult year for the European Union, but the awards nevertheless celebrate some significant achievements. The voting for Georgieva underlines that the EU is still a force for good in the world and a global player when it comes to humanitarian aid.

“The confidence expressed in Trichet is significant in view of the tensions that have persisted for the last eight months between the European Central Bank and some eurozone governments.

“The vote for Hennis-Plasschaert emphasises how important are the powers given by the Lisbon treaty to the European Parliament.

“David Cameron might not welcome our voters drawing attention to how the coalition agreement wrong-footed the most Europhobic of his party colleagues, but Nick Clegg could probably do with some kind of affirmation that he made the right decision.

“Most of our readers (though not the Dutch) clearly enjoyed the Spanish football team’s triumph, which established Europe ahead of Latin America. However, I suspect that what matters now in Madrid is whether Spain and Portugal win the nomination for hosting the 2018 World Cup.”

The EVawards were presented during a gala dinner at the stock exchange of Brussels, attended by more than 120 leading legislators, policymakers and members of the EU community.

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Public Voice of Bulgarian people

What is the right of the European Voice to distribute such an assessment? Did it ask the people of Bulgaria who nominated her? Mrs. Kristalina Georgieva was nominated for European commissioner for international co-operation, humanitarian aid and crisis by the last post-totalitarian Bulgarian government that was elected with 15% of all the votes because of the post-totalitarian Bulgarian electoral system, managed and manipulated by the ruling parties. Such a system does not exist in any other European country and it was only adopted by the old totalitarian regime of Bulgaria. Now this government has less than 10% popularity in spite of the fact that it caught control of the public media, not at all is being a democratic one and has undermined and almost ruined the state machine, for building the capacity of which Europe invested a lot of the money of European taxpayers.
This in fact government represents the minority of the population and this is only possible to happen in countries having low developed democracy or not being democratic at all.
After all not a single firm reason is put forward to prove the assessment of European Voice. The judgment should be based on her actions and mostly on the outcomes of her job being an European commissioner. But the facts are annoying. After paying 2 billion Euro from the pockets of the European taxpayers in the Haiti mission after the earthquake, the situation is getting even worse. Why nobody asks where the money goes and we have a vast epidaemia of cholera to stop which we need more and more money. It seems that things are not so well organized with the huge amount of European money. Really European Voice ignores the rights of European taxpayers making assessments and drawing conclusions.
In fact it looks like these conclusions are made under the pressure of The World Bank neoliberal economic circle which makes a lot of money advising corrupted politicians in Bulgaria and giving them loans and who admit as normal criminal privatization and export of the capital from the privatization deals which is not at all done for the benefit of the Bulgarian people as a part of the big European family. It is quite clear who judges and gives awards having in mind that Mrs. Kristalina Georgieva comes from The World Bank in Washington in which institution she has been working for 20 years from the dawn of the Bulgarian transition from communist rule. It would be interesting for the European taxpayers whose money are so lavishly spent in Haiti and other places around the world that their commissioner was promoted to The World Bank by a Bulgarian politician who is the architect and executor of the criminal privatization of Bulgaria.
W consider the assessment made European Voice is a private one made in a small circle and does not reflect the true situation and the interests of the Bulgarian people as a part of the big democratic European family.

Posted on 12/1/10 | 4:24 AM CET

Public Voice of Bulgarian people

What is the right of the European Voice to distribute such an assessment? Did it ask the people of Bulgaria who nominated her? Mrs. Kristalina Georgieva was nominated for European commissioner for international co-operation, humanitarian aid and crisis by the last post-totalitarian Bulgarian government that was elected with 15% of all the votes because of the post-totalitarian Bulgarian electoral system, managed and manipulated by the ruling parties. Such a system does not exist in any other European country and it was only adopted by the old totalitarian regime of Bulgaria. Now this government has less than 10% popularity in spite of the fact that it caught control of the public media, not at all is being a democratic one and has undermined and almost ruined the state machine, for building the capacity of which Europe invested a lot of the money of European taxpayers.
This in fact government represents the minority of the population and this is only possible to happen in countries having low developed democracy or not being democratic at all.
After all not a single firm reason is put forward to prove the assessment of European Voice. The judgment should be based on her actions and mostly on the outcomes of her job being an European commissioner. But the facts are annoying. After paying 2 billion Euro from the pockets of the European taxpayers in the Haiti mission after the earthquake, the situation is getting even worse. Why nobody asks where the money goes and we have a vast epidaemia of cholera to stop which we need more and more money. It seems that things are not so well organized with the huge amount of European money. Really European Voice ignores the rights of European taxpayers making assessments and drawing conclusions.
In fact it looks like these conclusions are made under the pressure of The World Bank neoliberal economic circle which makes a lot of money advising corrupted politicians in Bulgaria and giving them loans and who admit as normal criminal privatization and export of the capital from the privatization deals which is not at all done for the benefit of the Bulgarian people as a part of the big European family. It is quite clear who judges and gives awards having in mind that Mrs. Kristalina Georgieva comes from The World Bank in Washington in which institution she has been working for 20 years from the dawn of the Bulgarian transition from communist rule. It would be interesting for the European taxpayers whose money are so lavishly spent in Haiti and other places around the world that their commissioner was promoted to The World Bank by a Bulgarian politician who is the architect and executor of the criminal privatization of Bulgaria.
W consider the assessment made European Voice is a private one made in a small circle and does not reflect the true situation and the interests of the Bulgarian people as a part of the big democratic European family.

Posted on 12/1/10 | 4:24 AM CET

Public Voice of Bulgarian people

What is the right of the European Voice to distribute such an assessment? Did it ask the people of Bulgaria who nominated her? Mrs. Kristalina Georgieva was nominated for European commissioner for international co-operation, humanitarian aid and crisis by the last post-totalitarian Bulgarian government that was elected with 15% of all the votes because of the post-totalitarian Bulgarian electoral system, managed and manipulated by the ruling parties. Such a system does not exist in any other European country and it was only adopted by the old totalitarian regime of Bulgaria. Now this government has less than 10% popularity in spite of the fact that it caught control of the public media, not at all is being a democratic one and has undermined and almost ruined the state machine, for building the capacity of which Europe invested a lot of the money of European taxpayers.
This in fact government represents the minority of the population and this is only possible to happen in countries having low developed democracy or not being democratic at all.
After all not a single firm reason is put forward to prove the assessment of European Voice. The judgment should be based on her actions and mostly on the outcomes of her job being an European commissioner. But the facts are annoying. After paying 2 billion Euro from the pockets of the European taxpayers in the Haiti mission after the earthquake, the situation is getting even worse. Why nobody asks where the money goes and we have a vast epidaemia of cholera to stop which we need more and more money. It seems that things are not so well organized with the huge amount of European money. Really European Voice ignores the rights of European taxpayers making assessments and drawing conclusions.
In fact it looks like these conclusions are made under the pressure of The World Bank neoliberal economic circle which makes a lot of money advising corrupted politicians in Bulgaria and giving them loans and who admit as normal criminal privatization and export of the capital from the privatization deals which is not at all done for the benefit of the Bulgarian people as a part of the big European family. It is quite clear who judges and gives awards having in mind that Mrs. Kristalina Georgieva comes from The World Bank in Washington in which institution she has been working for 20 years from the dawn of the Bulgarian transition from communist rule. It would be interesting for the European taxpayers whose money are so lavishly spent in Haiti and other places around the world that their commissioner was promoted to The World Bank by a Bulgarian politician who is the architect and executor of the criminal privatization of Bulgaria.
W consider the assessment made European Voice is a private one made in a small circle and does not reflect the true situation and the interests of the Bulgarian people as a part of the big democratic European family.

Posted on 12/1/10 | 4:24 AM CET

Public Voice of Bulgarian people

What is the right of the European Voice to distribute such an assessment? Did it ask the people of Bulgaria who nominated her? Mrs. Kristalina Georgieva was nominated for European commissioner for international co-operation, humanitarian aid and crisis by the last post-totalitarian Bulgarian government that was elected with 15% of all the votes because of the post-totalitarian Bulgarian electoral system, managed and manipulated by the ruling parties. Such a system does not exist in any other European country and it was only adopted by the old totalitarian regime of Bulgaria. Now this government has less than 10% popularity in spite of the fact that it caught control of the public media, not at all is being a democratic one and has undermined and almost ruined the state machine, for building the capacity of which Europe invested a lot of the money of European taxpayers.
This in fact government represents the minority of the population and this is only possible to happen in countries having low developed democracy or not being democratic at all.
After all not a single firm reason is put forward to prove the assessment of European Voice. The judgment should be based on her actions and mostly on the outcomes of her job being an European commissioner. But the facts are annoying. After paying 2 billion Euro from the pockets of the European taxpayers in the Haiti mission after the earthquake, the situation is getting even worse. Why nobody asks where the money goes and we have a vast epidaemia of cholera to stop which we need more and more money. It seems that things are not so well organized with the huge amount of European money. Really European Voice ignores the rights of European taxpayers making assessments and drawing conclusions.
In fact it looks like these conclusions are made under the pressure of The World Bank neoliberal economic circle which makes a lot of money advising corrupted politicians in Bulgaria and giving them loans and who admit as normal criminal privatization and export of the capital from the privatization deals which is not at all done for the benefit of the Bulgarian people as a part of the big European family. It is quite clear who judges and gives awards having in mind that Mrs. Kristalina Georgieva comes from The World Bank in Washington in which institution she has been working for 20 years from the dawn of the Bulgarian transition from communist rule. It would be interesting for the European taxpayers whose money are so lavishly spent in Haiti and other places around the world that their commissioner was promoted to The World Bank by a Bulgarian politician who is the architect and executor of the criminal privatization of Bulgaria.
W consider the assessment made European Voice is a private one made in a small circle and does not reflect the true situation and the interests of the Bulgarian people as a part of the big democratic European family.

Oxfam congratulates European Humaitarian Aid Commissioner Kristina Georgieva as ‘European of the Year’ at this years European Voice’s annual award ceremony. Coming from a new EU member state, Georgieva was also voted European commissioner of the year.

In her short time in post, she has taken an active and vocal role. In the last few months, she has visited Haiti, Pakistan, the Sahel, and Sudan, and spoken and written about what she has seen on the ground. She has paid tribute to NGOs working in challenging conditions in these crises around the world and fought hard to defend their space and role.

Oxfam welcomes the award as important recognition of the efforts the Commissioner has made to raise awareness of humanitarian crisis in places like the Sahel in West Africa, Sudan and Somalia. She has set the example for how much a Commissioner can achieve and look forward to her continued work on future humanitarian crises.

Oxfam congratulates European Humaitarian Aid Commissioner Kristina Georgieva as ‘European of the Year’ at this years European Voice’s annual award ceremony. Coming from a new EU member state, Georgieva was also voted European commissioner of the year.

In her short time in post, she has taken an active and vocal role. In the last few months, she has visited Haiti, Pakistan, the Sahel, and Sudan, and spoken and written about what she has seen on the ground. She has paid tribute to NGOs working in challenging conditions in these crises around the world and fought hard to defend their space and role.

Oxfam welcomes the award as important recognition of the efforts the Commissioner has made to raise awareness of humanitarian crisis in places like the Sahel in West Africa, Sudan and Somalia. She has set the example for how much a Commissioner can achieve and look forward to her continued work on future humanitarian crises.

Oxfam congratulates European Humaitarian Aid Commissioner Kristina Georgieva as ‘European of the Year’ at this years European Voice’s annual award ceremony. Coming from a new EU member state, Georgieva was also voted European commissioner of the year.

In her short time in post, she has taken an active and vocal role. In the last few months, she has visited Haiti, Pakistan, the Sahel, and Sudan, and spoken and written about what she has seen on the ground. She has paid tribute to NGOs working in challenging conditions in these crises around the world and fought hard to defend their space and role.

Oxfam welcomes the award as important recognition of the efforts the Commissioner has made to raise awareness of humanitarian crisis in places like the Sahel in West Africa, Sudan and Somalia. She has set the example for how much a Commissioner can achieve and look forward to her continued work on future humanitarian crises.

Oxfam congratulates European Humaitarian Aid Commissioner Kristina Georgieva as ‘European of the Year’ at this years European Voice’s annual award ceremony. Coming from a new EU member state, Georgieva was also voted European commissioner of the year.

In her short time in post, she has taken an active and vocal role. In the last few months, she has visited Haiti, Pakistan, the Sahel, and Sudan, and spoken and written about what she has seen on the ground. She has paid tribute to NGOs working in challenging conditions in these crises around the world and fought hard to defend their space and role.

Oxfam welcomes the award as important recognition of the efforts the Commissioner has made to raise awareness of humanitarian crisis in places like the Sahel in West Africa, Sudan and Somalia. She has set the example for how much a Commissioner can achieve and look forward to her continued work on future humanitarian crises.